AuthorTopic: bios update [solved] (Read 6072 times)

I have an old laptop and the bios only supports booting from hd floppy and cd. I want to be able to boot from the usb since my flash drive is larger than my hd however I cannot find any support from the manufacturer for this computer. I have tried searching through google and yahoo, but no luck there. It's a Tangent model #979 with phoenix bios if anyone knows of a site that provides updates please let me know

I believe you can use any VL installation cd to boot to HD or USB. Boot from the cd and when the screen comes up that says "Press enter to begin the installation of <vl version>" or something like that, type at the prompt: "linux root /dev/sda1 ro" without the quotes and where /dev/sda1 is the path to your usb device.